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Daria Usacheva
Daria Romanovna Usacheva (pronounced Usachyova; , born 22 May 2006) is a retired Russian figure skater. She is the 2021 Skate America silver medalist. On the junior level, she is the 2020 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, 2020 World Junior silver medalist, the 2019–20 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final, 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2019 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge champion, and the 2020 Russian Figure Skating Championships, 2020 Russian junior national bronze medalist. Personal life Usacheva was born in Khabarovsk on 22 May 2006. Her figure skating idol is her training mate, 2018 Olympic champion Alina Zagitova. Career Early years Usacheva began learning how to skate in 2009 at the age of three in her native Khabarovsk. After moving to Moscow with her family, Usacheva trained for several years in the group of Oksana Bulycheva at Sambo 70. After parting ways with Bulycheva, she trained under Anna Tsareva for a year before finally mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk ( ) is the largest city and the administrative centre of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia,Law #109 located from the China–Russia border, at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers, about north of Vladivostok. As of the 2021 Russian census, it had a population of 617,441. It was known as ''Khabarovka'' until 1893. The city was the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia from 2002 until December 2018, when the status was given to Vladivostok. As is typical of the interior of the Russian Far East, Khabarovsk has an extreme climate with strong seasonal swings resulting in strong, cold winters and relatively hot and humid summers. History Earliest record Historical records indicate that a city was founded on the site in the eighth century. The Tungusic peoples are indigenous to the city's vicinity. The city was named ( zh, t= 伯力, p=Bólì, labels=no) in Chinese when it was part of the Chinese empire. During the Tang dynasty, Boli was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Figure Skating
Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, with its introduction occurring at the Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics, 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are Single skating, men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance; the four individual disciplines are also combined into a team event, which was first included in the Winter Olympics in 2014 Winter Olympics, 2014. The non-Olympic disciplines include synchronized skating, Ice theatre, Theater on Ice, and four skating. From intermediate through senior-level competition, skaters generally perform two programs (the Short program (figure skating), short program and the Free skating, free skate), which, depending on the discipline, may include figure skating spins, spins, figure skating jumps, jumps, moves in the field, Figure skating lifts, lifts, Figure skating jumps#Throw jump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and administratively lies in the Harju County, Harju ''Counties of Estonia, maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main governmental, financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city, Tartu, however, only south of Helsinki, Finland; it is also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical Names of Tallinn in different languages, name Reval. “Reval” received Lübeck law, Lübeck city rights in 1248; however, the earliest evidence of human settlement in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sofia Samodelkina
Sofia Vladimirovna Samodelkina (; born 18 February 2007) is a Russian-Kazakhstani figure skater who currently competes for Kazakhstan. She is the Kazakhstani Figure Skating Championships, 2025 Kazakh national champion, Figure skating at the 2025 Winter World University Games, 2025 World University Games bronze medalist, 2024 CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge silver medalist, and the 2024 CS Tallinn Trophy silver medalist. As a junior skater, competing for Russia, she is the 2021–22 ISU Junior Grand Prix, 2021 JGP Slovenia silver medalist, the 2021–22 ISU Junior Grand Prix, 2021 JGP Russia bronze medalist, and the Denis Ten Memorial Challenge, 2021 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge champion. Samodelkina is the ninth woman to land a quad (figure skating), quadruple jump and the fifteenth to land a triple Axel jump in international competition. She is the second woman after Alexandra Trusova who has landed all Quad (figure skating), quadruple jumps except quad Axel in practice. She is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sofia Akatieva
Sofia Dmitrievna Akateva (, born 7 July 2007) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2023 Russian champion. At the junior level, she is the 2021 JGP Russia champion, the 2021 JGP Poland champion, a two-time Russian junior national champion (2021, 2022), and currently holds the junior women's world records for the highest total and free skate scores. Akateva is the 11th woman to land a quad jump and the 14th to land a triple Axel in international competition. She is the second woman after American skater Alysa Liu to land a quad jump and triple Axel in one program successfully. Personal life Akateva was born in Moscow on 7 July 2007. She has a younger brother, Aleksandr. Sonik () is a Russian diminutive form of Sofia, so she is affectionately nicknamed Super Soniс by her fans and teammates for her strong technical ability. Career Early years Akateva began learning to skate in 2011 as a four-year-old at Sambo 70. She transitioned into the Khrustalnyi rink under her cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alysa Liu
Alysa Liu (born August 8, 2005) is an American figure skater. She is the 2025 World champion, 2022 World bronze medalist, 2021 Nebelhorn Trophy champion, 2021 Lombardia Trophy champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion (2019, 2020). At age 16, she competed in the 2022 Winter Olympics, placing sixth. At the junior level, Liu is the 2020 World Junior bronze medalist, the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time Junior Grand Prix champion, and the 2018 U.S. junior national champion. Liu became the youngest-ever U.S. women's national champion when she won her first title at age 13. At age 14, she became the youngest skater to win two senior national titles. Liu is the first woman to win two consecutive U.S. titles since Ashley Wagner in 2012 and 2013. She is also the first woman to win the junior and senior titles back-to-back since Mirai Nagasu in 2008. When Liu won the 2025 World Championships in Boston, she became the first U.S. woman to win the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kamila Valieva
Kamila Valeryevna Valieva ( ; born 26 April 2006) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2021 Rostelecom Cup champion, the 2021 Skate Canada champion, the 2020 Junior World champion, the 2019-20 Junior Grand Prix Final champion and the 2021 Russian national silver medalist. During the 2022 Winter Olympics a sample that Valieva had submitted for a drug test in December tested positive for trimetazidine. On 29 January 2024, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled in Valieva's doping case involving the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). The International Skating Union (ISU) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) imposed a four-year ban on Valieva backdated to 25 December 2021, and disqualified her of all competitive results from that date, including the first-place finishes at the 2022 European Figure Skating Championships and the 2022 Olympic team event. Even with the above suspension and disqualification taken into account, Valieva is the current world record holder fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Torino
Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), River Po, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alpine arch and Superga hill. The population of the city proper is 856,745 as of 2025, while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city was historically a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. Turin is sometimes called "the cradle of Italian liberty" for having been the politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Maria Levushkina
Maria Levushkina (; born 18 July 2004) is a Bulgarian figure skater. She is a two-time Bulgarian junior national champion (2019–20) and competed in the final segment at the 2020 World Junior Championships. Personal life Levushkina was born in Varna, Bulgaria and has a brother who played hockey. The family moved to Moscow when she was four for her parents' work, though they continued to spend summers in Bulgaria. Career Levushkina began skating in Moscow when she was young. She continued to train in Moscow as well as in Sofia. In 2018, Levushkina competed in her first ISU Junior Grand Prix series. She competed at the stages in Yerevan and Linz and finished in 10th place in both. The next season, on the 2019–20 Junior Grand Prix series, her first Grand Prix assignment was in Riga; she was 9th after the short program, but she skated a clean free skate and improved her free skate personal best by 20 points to end in 7th. At her second assignment in Chelyabinsk, she place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Maiia Khromykh
Maya or Maiia Vladislavovna Khromykh (; born 25 May 2006) is a Russian figure skater. She is the 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia silver medalist, the 2021 Rostelecom Cup bronze medalist, the 2021 CS Warsaw Cup champion, and the 2021 Budapest Trophy champion. On the junior level, she is the 2019 JGP France bronze medalist, and the 2019 Denis Ten Memorial Challenge silver medalist. She finished fourth at the 2020 World Junior Championships. Personal life Maya Khromykh was born on 25 May 2006 in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. Maya's father Vladislav Khromykh is an ice hockey coach. He was a head coach of the Russian ice hockey team at the 2017 Winter Universiade where the team won the gold medal. Her brother Yaroslav is a hockey player. Career Early years Khromykh began learning how to skate in 2009 as early as at the age of three. She was coached by Anna Boldina and subsequently by Anna Tsareva at Sambo-70 'Khrustalniy' until autumn 2018. She then joined Eteri Tutberidze, Daniil Glei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Junior Grand Prix Final
The ISU Junior Grand Prix Final (titled the ISU Junior Series Final in the 1997–98 season) is the final event of a series of junior-level competitions – the ISU Junior Grand Prix – organized by the International Skating Union (ISU). Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Skaters earn qualifying points at each Junior Grand Prix event, and at the end of the series, the six highest-placing skaters or teams from each discipline advance to the Junior Grand Prix Final. History Switzerland hosted the inaugural Junior Series Final in Lausanne in 1997. There, Timothy Goebel of the United States became the first skater in the world to successfully perform a quadruple Salchow jump in competition, and the first American skater to land a quadruple jump of any kind in competition. At the JGP Final in 2002, Miki Ando became the first woman to land a quadruple jump in competition, performing a quadruple Salchow. In the 2008–09 season, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
ISU Junior Grand Prix In Croatia
The ISU Junior Grand Prix in Croatia is an international figure skating competition. Sanctioned by the International Skating Union, it is periodically held in the autumn as part of the Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series. Medals may be awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance. Results Men's singles Women's singles Pairs , , , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:left" , 2017 , , , , , - ! scope="row" style="text-align:left" , 2019 , , , , Ice dance References External links ISU Junior Grand Prixat the International Skating Union Croatian Skating Federation {{Junior Grand Prix Figure skating Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ... JGP Figure skating in Croatia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
